Spike Spiegel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in gmetad, themeta-daemon for the ganglia cluster monitoring toolkit, which could betriggered via a request with long path names and might enablearbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed inversion 2.5.7-3.1etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed inversion 2.5.7-5.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your ganglia-monitor-core packages.

Upgrade instructions- --------------------

wget url will fetch the file for youdpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line forsources.list as given below: